Groundhog Day
It’s Groundhog Day and some of the militant marmots object to being disturbed.
The CBC offers the most complete coverage and tell us that Shubenacadie Sam in Nova Scotia and Punxsutawney Phil from Pennsylvania think winter is over as the latest winter storm is getting ready to dump snow in the center of the US. Winnipeg Willow got fed up with the process and died in January to avoid being annoyed.
FYI: this is approximately the midpoint between the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox. It is called Imbolc among the Celts, which is why people are interested.
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Amazing how people refuse to believe 99% of the climate scientists on the planet when it comes to global warming, but willingly accept weather predictions from a rodent. Tells you more about the American public than is perhaps safe for sanity.
I kind of thought that Winnipeg Winnie actually died of embarrassment because more people believed her than Dr Masters. 😉
OT, Bryan and BadTux, tomorrow I’m about to “upgrade” from Ubuntu 12.04.5 to 14.04.3, both LTS … any words of wisdom before I start?
Oops, never mind… I run the Gnome Shell. I know more recent versions of Gnome Shell will run with more recent versions of Ubuntu, but I doubt seriously the automated install that comes up in Update Manager these days will cope with the install. At any rate, I’ll have to do more reading.
The provocation to change now: Google Chrome is giving me a message that soon I will not be receiving regular updates because my Ubuntu is too old. Hmph. Doesn’t seem to bother them with Windows; Stella is still getting Chrome updates, and she runs (wince) Vista…
Steve, the upgrade took a while but required a minimum of intervention. The system starts a bit slower than before, but operates faster on my box. Unity and Gnome are both shells, so the upgrade should work with either shell, although the Unity shell is improved over the 12.04 version. It is probably a requirement for newer versions of python, perl, ajax, etc. that Google wants.
I run Centos rather than Ubuntu LTS, so I’m not the one to ask about Ubuntu LTS. I virtually never use the “upgrade” feature, I have two root partitions that I flip between, when I upgrade to a newer major version (e.g. Centos 6 to Centos 7) I install it on the one I wasn’t using, then flip the Grub to point to the new place. I then reinstall whatever programs I need and copy my config files of interest from the old system to the new system but otherwise it’s a fresh install. On the dev/play machine I run Fedora simply because I can, but Fedora isn’t stable and isn’t designed to be.
Steve, FYI Chrome browser will no longer update on XP either.